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Is JSON data type support in the works? Seems to be a very commonly requested feature these days.
Yes, it's something we have on the roadmap. We will adjust priority based on the level of demand so thanks for your vote ;-) (disclaimer: I work on Cloud Spanner)
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Yes, it's something we have on the roadmap. We will adjust priority based on the level of demand so thanks for your vote ;-) (disclaimer: I work on Cloud Spanner)
Dumb question: Since strings are supported, couldn't you just store some JSON as a string? Or are you talking about supporting queries that involve parsing the JSON on the "server"?
1: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/datatype-json.htm...
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Yes, it's something we have on the roadmap. We will adjust priority based on the level of demand so thanks for your vote ;-) (disclaimer: I work on Cloud Spanner)
Dumb question: Since strings are supported, couldn't you just store some JSON as a string? Or are you talking about supporting queries that involve parsing the JSON on the "server"?
This release shows the different philosophies of Google vs Amazon in an interesting way. Google prefers building advanced systems that let you do things "the old way" but making them horizontally scalable. Amazon prefers to acknowledge that network partitions exist and try to get you to do things "the new way" that deals with that failure case in the software instead of trying to hide it. I'm not saying either system…
This isn't entirely accurate. BigTable was Google's earlier cloud database, and it's certainly non-traditional, and you have to build your application without traditional consistency guarantees, the way you describe. Spanner doesn't exactly hide the details, but it lets you make transactions that span multiple shards. You still eat the cost of the transaction, you're just free from having to implement it at the appli…
Discolsure: Also a Google employee, also reconstructing.
Some interesting stuff in https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/whitepapers/SpannerAnd... about the social aspects of high availability. 1. Defining high availability in terms of how a system is used: "In turn, the real litmus test is whether or not users (that want their own service to be highly available) write the code to handle outage exceptions: if they haven’t written that code, then they are assuming high avai…
> perceived safety ... driving I became a way better winter driver when I started intentionally fishtailing in snow and ice (in low risk situations).
Great product from Google. I wonder what is the difference between Cloud Spanner and Google CloudSQL
So does Cloud Spanner replace the existing Google Cloud SQL offering [1]? What are the pros/cons of each? [1] https://cloud.google.com/sql/